The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Eternal god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. Send your spirit of peace and calm that all might have confidence in your faithfulness to us. That no matter what lies ahead your grace is abundantly available. Now we approach a week during which all americans will gather to remember who we are. A nation generously blessed not only by you, our god, but by courageous ancestors faithful allies, and the best good wishes of people everywhere who long for freedom, who would glory in the difficult work of participative government and who do not enjoy the bounty we are privileged to possess. Bless the members of this assembly and us all that we would be worthy of the call we have been given as americans. Help us all to be truly thankful and appropriately generous in our response. May all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory, amen. The sp
We do say good morning, america, and we are following the fastbreaking developments this morning. You are lookinat the scene of ththat majoraid this morning. Sustained explosions, gunfire heard in that neighborhood just outside of p paris, acally less than one mile away from the soccer stadium that was attacked. Authorities t thought ty might have cornered the mastermind, at man right there, Abdelhamid Abaaoud. Heres what we know right now about the raid. Two people are dead, including that woman who detonated a suicide bomb. Seven people arrested. Five officers injured and a police dog was killed and you also see that photo of one of those suspects dragged away by police. His clothes partially torn off. What we dont know right now was this another cell actually getting ready to strike right away. What happened to both abaaoud, the mastermind, and that eighth attacker from friday that fled to belgium. World news anchor david muir on the scene since the raid began this morning. David. R
Lasting. Thursday is going to be sunny, but very windy and cold with highs in the mid 40s and wind gusts up to 45 mph. Friday there is still a very good chance for snow in the afternoon to early evening. Right now it looks like it will start as a wintry mix and turn into snow fairly quickly into the afternoon. Snow accumulations should be on the lighter side with ground temperatures being as low as they are, but i still think in grassy areas we will see a general collection between 1 and 3 inches with a few isolated areas able to get 4 inches. The weekend looks pretty dry for everyone but cold weather slides into place with highs in the 30s saturday and sunday. Elias top five this morning. Elias the director of the Iowa International center says despite governor branstad calling for a halt in taking in Syrian Refugees, the center would still be happy to help them. The director also says the United Nations and federal government are in control of allowing refugees into the country. Elia
Display in dayton over the weekend find out what the community is doing following the incident, coming up elias raids into a parisian neighborhood last night, following multiple isis attacks there and across the world weve got the story local 5 news midday in hd starts now. We are iowa elias good morning and thanks for joining us for local 5 news midday. Im Elias Johnson. Elias new at midday today elias in fort dodge early this morning there was an Armed Robbery near brownies cafe the victim said that he was approached by the suspect while walking his dog, and was threatened with a gun and asked for money. After the victim showed he had nothing, the suspect fled the scene. The suspect was described as a white male in his early 20s, approximately 5 footseven and of slender build. No one was injured in the incident, if you have any information, please contact the Fort Dodge Police department or crime stoppers, department or crime stoppers, with the information on your screen. Elias happe
Afternoon high of around 52 degrees. Its possible early this evening as temperatures fall quickly we could see a brief rain snow mix to even a few flakes fall in western iowa, but nothing will accumulate and it would not be long lasting. Thursday is going to be sunny, but very windy and cold with highs in the mid 40s and wind gusts up to 45 mph. Friday there is still a very good chance for snow in the afternoon to early evening. Right now it looks like it will start as a wintry mix and turn into snow fairly quickly into the afternoon. Snow accumulations should be on the lighter side with ground temperatures being as low as they are, but i still think in grassy areas we will see a general collection between 1 and 3 inches with a few isolated areas able to get 4 inches. The weekend looks pretty dry for everyone but cold weather slides into place with highs in the 30s saturday and sunday. Elias lets get into the top five this morning. Elias the director of the Iowa International center sa